A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF EUGENE O'NEILL.

By Ralph Sanborn '11 and Barrett H. Clark. New York: Random House. Limited Edition. The compilers of this neat and useful book knew that it would not sell widely, and that, since it is the bibliography of a living author, it would be incomplete before the first copy reached a subscriber. But they have been eager to pay tribute in this form to a dramatist they admire, and they have not spared time or effort in doing the job beautifully. Every item, of whatever importance, published by O'Neill, they attempt to list. The record covers the years 1912 to 1931, and begins, surprisingly, with poems. Seventy-three items are listed, with a description of most, those, especially, which may be collected. Title pages of important editions are reproduced, and there are even pictures of the covers of magazines in which O'Neill's work appeared.

The collations are followed by lists: of books containing articles on or references to O'Neill; of periodicals containing articles on him; of anthologies in which his plays have been reprinted; and a short list of plays produced but not published. The final section contains poems by O'Neill, most of them dated 1912, and most of them imitative of Kipling. A prefatory note says that O'Neill was reluctant to have these poems republished. Naturally, and yet it is good to have them. They're considerably gayer than the O'Neill we've had of late.

I'm very glad that this book has been done; I shall use it frequently. Yet I feel that it was not aimed at my use, or the use of others like me, who are interested in O'Neill as an artist rather than as a creator of values in the rare book market. The main effort of the compilers has gone into defining differences in editions for the benefit of collectors, not into satisfying curiosity about what makes O'Neill a force in the world of letters. Mr. Clark's foreword says frankly that "The profits (of the book), if any, accrue only to those shrewd or lucky purchasers who know what books to buy and buy them at the right time."

A desire to make the bibliography useful to the scholar and critic, as well as to the speculator, would have resulted in mention of the numerous interviews O'Neill has given explaining his plays. Mr. Clark knows perfectly well what these are, since he refers to them in his book on O'Neill, though in the 1926 edition he did not index them. Also, instead of reproducing magazine covers and specimen pages, the compilers might so easily have given us O'Neill's designs for 'Dynamo, now buried in inaccessible newspapers. And what, for instance, is Item 20, a letter to The New York Times, about? A really helpful bibliographer, Mr. T. J. Wise, for example, would have told.

But still, for what is given in this book, though it is both more and less than I want, I am grateful.

Alumna Publication "Interfunctional Expressibility Problems of Symetric Functions" a thesis prepared for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Syracuse University by Dr. Josephine Robinson Roe has just been published. Dr. Roe secured her master's degree from Dartmouth in 1911.